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Lack of data validation In @fastify/busboy

Description

@fastify/busboy vulnerable to CRLF injection via multipart Content-Disposition filename and name

Impact

@fastify/busboy 3.2.1 and earlier retains a bare carriage return or line feed inside the parsed Content-Disposition parameters returned to the application. The multipart header parser ends a header line only on the two-byte \r\n sequence, so a lone CR or LF embedded in a part header is carried verbatim into the filename and field name delivered by the file and field events. An application that forwards the supplied filename or name into a CR/LF-sensitive sink cannot anticipate the embedded control character.

An attacker who uploads a file whose filename or field name contains a bare CR or LF can pollute filenames on disk when the upload is saved under its original name, inject forged lines into logs, or inject headers on a downstream hop that does not re-validate CR/LF, such as object-storage metadata or a proxied backend. Applications using @fastify/busboy directly, or through @fastify/multipart and its consumers, are affected.

Patches

Upgrade to @fastify/busboy 3.2.2 or later.

Workarounds

Validate or strip carriage return and line feed characters from the filename and field name before using them in any filesystem, logging, or outbound-header context.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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